Josef tries to flee the feeling of a bad dream. He goes online where he meets the phantom @janabringlove on webcam. But the consequences are not what he imagined. @janabringlove is fed up with the degradation of pleasing others.

@janabringlove

A semi-animated short film by Annie Mok about a genderqueer punk musician on tour connecting with a trans woman Pittsburgh local on a date in the cemetery, and later over tea at home.

Film only availbable when logged in Vimeo as it is marked as "Mature"

Allegheny Cemetery

An intimate and unflinching look at life in Iran, seen through the lens of those living at its fringes, 

 is a provocative look at a generation of young Iranian men choosing to undergo sex change surgery.

"This documentary mainly focuses on access to gender affirming surgeries in Iran. It follows several trans people, as they discuss very intimate details of their transition, having to defend themselves to family members and strangers, as well as talking about trans issues with Muslim religious scholars.

The director, being a cis woman, unfortunately does not use the best language to talk about trans people and has misgendered them in the documentary description. This was the first time I had ever seen Iranian trans people, in general, but also in a documentary.

One very mesmerizing person, and the only trans man in this documentary, who is unnamed, talks about how much women fancy him already, and that he cannot wait for his transition. Although he only appears for less than 3 minutes, the way he was unapologetic about his desires has stayed with me since the first time I watched this documentary as a teenager.

Although it might have been made through a difficult cis gaze, It is an important and raw documentation of the everyday lives of trans people in Iran."

- Katayoun Jalilipour, written on behalf of Otherness Archive for #TransLifeFreedom: A list of 5 Iranian films that center trans identities, gender non-conformity and queerness, with a focus on trans masculinity

Be Like Others 

José Maria is a seventeen-year-old boy who lives in Barcelona. He starts to have problems when he realizes that he is not happy with the body he has had in life and wants to change sex to become a woman. This will bring him problems with the school, which will ask for his transfer; with his father, who will try to get the boy to have sex with a woman to change his mind, and with society in general, who will look at him badly for wearing dresses.

Cambio de Sexo (Change of Sex)

Karl Foyle and Paul Prentice were best mates at school in the Seventies. But when they meet again in present-day London things are definitely not the same. Karl is now Kim, a transsexual, and she has no desire to stir up the past while she’s busy forging a neat and orderly new life. Prentice, on the other hand, has charm but is a social disaster stuck in a dead-end job. His main talent is for getting them both into trouble. Amid the squabbles, they start to fall in love. One night, Kim invites Prentice to a romantic dinner at her flat. Prentice, finding the seduction unexpectedly effective, freaks out. He proceeds to make a public display of both of them and winds up in court. Humiliated and angry, Kim runs away. Only she can save Prentice now, but will true love triumph for a new made woman and an aging punk?

Different for Girls

Deep within a rotoscoped dream, three transgender people confront a cataclysmic flood. Featuring stories from Jessie Anderson, Helen Poon and Al Mackay. 

My graduation film for Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Flash Flood is currently represented by the Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Center: All screening requests can be made to bookings@cfmdc.org

Screening History:
Festival du Nouveau Cinema - 2017
Whistler Film Festival - 2017
San Francisco Transgender Film Festival - 2017
Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival - 2018
Vancouver Short Film Festival - 2018
Reel 2 Real Film Festival - 2018
Seattle Translations Film Festival - 2018
Los Angeles OUTFEST - 2018
Arkipel Festival Indonesia - 2018
Vancouver Queer Film Festival - 2018
TWIST Seattle Queer Film Festival - 2018
Pittsburgh International LGBTQ+ Festival - 2018
Tilde Melbourne Film Festival - 2018
Reel Q Festival - 2018
Trans Film Fest Stockholm - 2018
NewFest New York - 2018

Flash Flood

What happens when two Transdykes get sick of non-transsexual's uninformed representation of their sexualities and their lives? They grab their 8 millimeter home video camera, their last 200 bucks, and come up with an uncompromising in-your-face flick about their shitty relationships with gay men and their unabashed attraction to other transsexual women.

We would like to note that one of the filmmakers, Jeanne B was used as a pseudonym name. Her real name is Mirha-Soleil Ross and has made other film works from the past.  

Gender Troublemakers

This short film profiles human right's activist Bhumika Shrestha, Nepal's first transgender politician and member of the Nepali Congress.

I AM: The Transcender

Music video of Shea Diamond's song I Am Her

My name is Shea Diamond, Singer/Songwriter based in NYC by way of Flint, MI. I was born into a gender role that I did not accept & I didn’t feel like myself. Desperate to find the financial means to transition to my true gender, I committed a crime in 1999 & was sentenced to 10 years in a men's prison. While incarcerated, I found a community that shared my trans experience - it was there where I found my voice. I began writing “I Am Her” as a statement to a world that said I shouldn't exist. I wrote it as an anthem for all those that felt shunned for simply being who they were. In 2009 I was released from prison. Shortly after my release, I moved to New York City where I found a studio to record “I Am Her” and the means to create a video for my song.

I Am Her

Director Jazmine Smith: "This is a short film about my life, growing up and becoming transgender, discovering myself, my culture and getting married. Hoping to inspire others through beauty, my transition and my story."

I Am Me

Inspired by Canadian video-maker Colin Campbell, this film ask questions about their rans journey to two transgender people. Starring Toronto-based media artists Chase Joynt and Nina Arsenault.

I'm Yours

Video swaps the roles of cis men and trans women by asking cis men questions and making remarks similar to those often received by trans women.

If Trans Women Flirted Like Cis Men

From Virago's new studio album Heaven Sent Delinquent, comes a harrowing tale of late-night escapades and economic marginalization. Singer-songwriter Shawna Virago has been called the fairy godmother of trans country artists, and is one of America’s first openly transgender women to tour nationally, performing as her true self since the early nineties.

Last Night's Sugar

Cult film director Doris Wishman's famous transploitation movie, notable especially for containing some of the first gender-affirming surgery footage ever put to film. 

This is a heavily dramatized film presented as a documentary, and narrated by a dubbed-over Dr. Leo Wollman (an actual doctor who treated trans people in the NYC area), whose real voice was not scientific or authoritative enough for Wishman's tastes. 

Viewer discretion is advised, since this film contains dehumanizing pseudoscience, dramatizations of genital mutilation, as well as actual footage from gender affirming surgery.

Let Me Die A Woman

Lucy Hicks Anderson recounts the story of Lucy Hicks Anderson, a woman of color who thrived during Prohibition and stood her ground to protect her marriage rights after being exposed as a transgender woman. 

Part of documentary series "We have been around".

Lucy Hicks Anderson

Mother Wit follows three Black trans women pursuing higher education as a means to break the cycle of poverty and discrimination in Brooklyn, New York. Our main purpose is to move away from stereotypical portrayals of Black trans women that usually only mention them in death. Our participants are changing that narrative through their hopes, dreams and ambitions.

Mother Wit

Documentary about transgendered people. The film alternates between musical performances and personal stories. Hanne Rasmussen, formerly called Hans, faces stigma and still has to dress in men’s clothes when he sees his family. With old letters and archive clips, Ellen Bækgaard talks about historical figures such as Lili Elbe and Magnus Hirchsfeld. American Christine Jørgensen shares the story of her life and the attention she received when she went to Denmark in the 1950s to have sex reassignment surgery. And Thomas Holck, who was formerly called Lis, talks about his innermost thoughts and the 15 years it took to achieve stability in his new gender.

Paradise Is Not For Sale

 is a short documentary on the intersections of drag, gender identity and queer community from the perspectives of six drag artists at varying stages in their careers.

For a copy of the film the artist has requested you contact them erynmcd [dot] creative [at] gmail.com

Queer Is A Tender Feeling

Music video of trans musician Lafemmebear

Shutup!

Trans woman attempts to translate a poem to her mother over the phone. Film consists of their phone call between the two women and the poem with various backgrounds.

THESE KIDS DON'T GET IT, MA.

TRANSformazzjoni is a documentary that provides an insight into Trans* peoples’ everyday lives in Malta. The documentary puts a spotlight on 5 Maltese Trans* people from different walks of life giving full visibility to a wide range of people in the Trans* community, which all represent a section of Maltese society and to which different people can relate to.

TRANSformazzjoni 

Tailor is a transgender cartoonist that shares in his web page other trans people’s experiences and their challenges in society. Film is about being transgender, made by transgender crew.

Film is in Portuguese with English subtitles.

Tailor

A story of transition – from male to female, and from despondency to happiness. Using recorded interview material and representative artwork, this short touches on the fear and loneliness of living in the closet, and the joy and confidence that comes with stepping into the light.

Teagan

Video consists of the director talking about incels who believe their lives would be better, if they transitioned. It is talked through looking at film Inside Mari (2017). Moreover, the video talks about the directors experience of transitioning and childhood experiences.

The Incel to Trans Pipeline and Inside Mari

Transfinite is a sci-fi omnibus feature film composed of seven standalone short stories where supernatural trans and queer people from various cultures use their powers to protect, love, teach, fight and thrive.

Transfinite

“War Call” is the debut music video of Mizz June

A call to mobilization for all listening, “War Call” is the debut music video of NYC based trans hip hop artist Mizz June. 

Mizz June, the protege of luminary black transwomen Octavia St. Laurent and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy felt the need to address the current state of affairs for transwomen. Specifically those in her direct community, Black and Latin@ transwomen. The murders at the hands of trans amorous men, lack of supporting trans lives from activists within the black/POC communities, and hateful messaging against trans communities by the current governmental legislation created a sense of urgency for this song and video.

War Call

 follows a group of Transgender individuals struggling to make their way in every strata of 1980s America. From ﬁnding employment to ﬁnding acceptance, the ﬁrst question the world forces them to ask is always, "

What Sex Am I

A short fairy tale inspired by the life of pioneering trans woman Lili Elbe, who came out in the 1920's and died of complications after a gender reassignment surgery that would have "enabled her to become a mother."

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